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In the 1990s, the Internet was everything new. It was going to revolutionise the world around us, and you couldn’t step outside without someone babbling on about this new-fangled “electronic mail”. Arguably, the internet did change our lives, but certainly not in the way Playboy envisioned.
Don’t worry, this video is a neutered SFW version; well, there’s everything you’d expect from Playboy’s Girls of the Internet, just no actual nudity. So maybe watch in a dark cupboard on your phone, rather than on the screen that faces your boss.
Somehow I miss those super-jazzed new internet times. It held so much promise and was so fresh and exciting. Now it’s just another mundane tool, or a crippling addiction, depending on how you look at it. [YouTube via Laughing Squid via io9]
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Thanks Darrell!
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I agree, I love the 80s and 90s vision of computers and the internet. All exciting!
Teledildonics?
Haha now I have a mental image of a dildo making the Dial-up modem noises..
Oh Christ… Apparently teledildonics is real. It’s got a Wikipedia page and all!
Did you really not know this?
You did?
To the depths of the internet we go!
Dial up soft porn over AOL.
That’s pretty damn low
i remember porn disks on the amiga. just some crappy b&W blurred image being looped.
Yep, interesting field of study. I remember reading/seeing various articles and programs about it back when I was still on dialup.
I didn’t realise Plug n Play was around back then.
It was mostly just theoretical stuff back then given the limitations of computer and network speeds and graphics capabilities. It’s still largely just theory, but materials and technology are a lot closer to being “user ready” these days.
Teledildonics?
Nope, I just said it because it sounded funny…
the 90s when a 1mb porn video took ages to download and had to be worth the wait, lol
I think I used to use Kazaa to download porn?! It took FOREVER.
When my mate got cable I swiftly took my pc round to play LAN games (and download a year’s worth of porn on the sly!). Good times.